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...slow traffic since it was purchased in 1986 by Carl Icahn, cited the Persian Gulf in announcing that it would not be making $75.5 million in scheduled payments to bondholders in February. As for the dismal performance of retailers over Christmas, who would imagine that thigh-high hemlines or sticker shock over $100 cotton sweaters and $200 tennis shoes rather than combat jitters could have held consumers back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Saddam Made Me Do It | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...think the Bow, lately, sucks. There are too many yuppies," he says, wearing a red Budweiser Beer hat. Then he gets into the truck, which bears a flourescent green "Motorcycles Are Everywhere" bumper sticker, and takes...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: From Bikers To Preppies, Bud Hats To Chinos | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

...Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them up and spend them." His stores use about 400 sheets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: The Cover Of Money | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...drive even political revolutions. And there are echoes of the worst musical of the 1980s, the Shroud of Turin howler Into the Light, in the finale: red-and-gold-robed chorines try to explain the Asian religious concept of karma in lines seemingly lifted from a Southern California bumper sticker ("Karma is the way you never die"). One leaves the theater wondering if those Shinto priests read the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sailing Through the Storms | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...play reading "Dorf on Life" announce its vaguely allegorical purpose. The text offers an absurdist vision that is as empty as a Zen koan, as resonant as the sound of one hand clapping. Rob and Bobby's disclosures on Life read like something off a fortune cookie or bumper sticker: "A life full of love is like being a poor person with a refrigerator--you don't have one," and "Life's a marathon and then you run one." Best of all is the aphorism: "Life's a piece of shit and then you bite off more than...

Author: By Carey Monserrate, | Title: Dorf's Deli Proves Dreary | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

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